DON BENEDETTO ? - 1544 Very little is known of Don Benedetto, who was influential in the Italian reformation. He was probably a Benedictine monk who took his bows at Mantua in 1519 and lived at the St. Giorgio Maggiore monastery in Venice until about 1537. He then went to the St. Nicola all' Arena monastery in Sicily. After a time in Naples, be became a student of the Spanish Reformer Juan de Valdes (1498?-1541) and a friend of Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499-1562). His Beneficio di Christi was published in Venice, in 1543, and 40,000 copies were sold before 1549.
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DON BENEDETTO
? - 1544
Very little is known of Don Benedetto, who was influential in the Italian reformation. He was probably a Benedictine monk who took his bows at Mantua in 1519 and lived at the St. Giorgio Maggiore monastery in Venice until about 1537. He then went to the St. Nicola all' Arena monastery in Sicily. After a time in Naples, be became a student of the Spanish Reformer Juan de Valdes (1498?-1541) and a friend of Peter Martyr Vermigli (1499-1562). His Beneficio di Christi was published in Venice, in 1543, and 40,000 copies were sold before 1549.